#fiction

One thing I think is least realistic is that there were five people that made decisions in the fictional 'West Wing.' In real life, there are about five million people that weigh in. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#decisions #fictional #five #i #i think

In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism. ↗

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

#about #being #could #fiction #foundation

Say it again,” he says. “That whole drawn-out speech?” I remember something about a solar system, but I’m too light-headed to recite the entire thing all over again. He steps closer. “No. The part about you fallin’ for me. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#romantic #young-adult-fiction #young-adult-romance #romantic

From Flood, Flash, and Pheromones--coming soon: As Cassie’s body hurled toward him in the swirl, she realized the brevity of the situation. This was it. This was the moment that determined whether she lived to see another day or drowned in this filthy brown water. This was the moment she proved she had never been a quitter, never been a weakling. All the problems she’d dealt with at work today seemed trivial. ↗

— Shelley K. Wall

#novel #romancel #romantic-suspense #suspense #thriller

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#contrary #does #fictions #hand #i

Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

#eyes #fat #fiction #i #lawrence

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#comic #comic books #fiction #interested #particularly

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#been #eighth #eighth grade #fiction #grade

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#book #choose #commercial #dead #fiction

If a woman writes about family and about the connections between people and what it means to be alive in this day and time, it's called women's fiction. And if a man does it, it's nominated for a National Book Award. What - you can't have a heart and a penis? That doesn't make sense. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#alive #award #between #book #called